Uncanny X-Men #26 Review

I keep harping on this, but Brian Bendis has really tapped into something special for this current Uncanny X-Men run. I don’t know if he feels some powerful penance to pay for the run before (I’m sorry but Dark Beast? Really?) or what, but this is awesome. Granted, I wish it had come a bit sooner since it feels like Marvel has been burying Charles Xavier for two years now, but “Last Will and Testament of…” is the strongest storyline Bendis has crafted for this series to date. This issue divided up by two strong storylines. The first is Maria Hill trying to handle the issue of a new mutant with powers unlike anything they’ve seen before (except one or two times before). She really doesn’t want to have to call the X-Men after a humiliating episode in the “…Vs. SHIELD” story arc, so watching her frustration in trying to get it done herself is priceless. Really, any Maria Hill frustration is commonly priceless, but it’s especially so here in this book. But the real treat here is watching the resulting aftermath from the revelation in Xavier’s will. Watching the X-family have it out in a very cathartic manner speaks to anyone who comes from a big, divided family where things are rarely simple. That’s how it spoke to me, anyway. And for those of you who’ve been wanting more focus on the new students back at Cyclops’ renegade school, Bendis even wedged in a very telling training session where the freshman mutants realize they’re not all on the same page and that being and X-Man …